Frida Kinhult

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Frida Kinhult
Personal information
Full nameFrida Mikaela Kinhult
Born (1999-09-25) 25 September 1999 (age 25)
Fiskebäckskil, Sweden
Sporting nationalityFlag of Sweden.svg  Sweden
Residence Tallahassee, Florida
Partner Vincent Norrman
Career
College Florida State
Turned professional2019
Current tour(s) LPGA Tour
Former tour(s) Symetra Tour
Professional wins1
Number of wins by tour
Epson Tour1
Best results in LPGA major championships
Chevron Championship CUT: 2019, 2023
Women's PGA C'ship 69th: 2024
U.S. Women's Open T24: 2022
Women's British Open CUT: 2018, 2019
Evian Championship CUT: 2022, 2023, 2024
Achievements and awards
ACC Player of the Year2018-19
ACC Freshman of the Year2018-19
WGCA Freshman of the Year2018-19

Frida Mikaela Kinhult (born 25 September 1999) is a Swedish professional golfer. She rose to world number one in the World Amateur Golf Ranking in June 2019 [1] and won the 2020 Symetra Tour Championship to graduate to the LPGA Tour. [2]

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Early life and amateur career

The daughter of a golf professional, Kinhult started playing the game at an early age at Skaftö Golf Club in Fiskebäckskil, on the small Swedish west coast island Skaftö with 1,400 inhabitants. Her three years older brother Marcus Kinhult became a professional golfer at 19 years of age to play on the European Tour and won the 2019 Betfred British Masters.

Kinhult has played on the Swedish national team since 2013. Representing her country, she was part of the teams winning the 2017 European Girls' Team Championship and the 2018 and 2019 European Ladies' Team Championship. She has represented Europe in the Patsy Hankins Trophy, Junior Ryder Cup, Junior Solheim Cup, and won the 2019 Vagliano Trophy. Individually, she won the Spanish International Ladies Amateur Championship in 2017 and then successfully defended her title in 2018.

In 2015, aged 15, she started in her first Ladies European Tour event, the Helsingborg Open, and two years later she finished top-10 at Andalucia Costa Del Sol Open De España Femenino. She participated in three majors as a teenager. The win of the 2017 European Girls' Team Championship exempted her from pre-qualifying for the 2018 Women's British Open. [3] She later received an invitation to the 2019 ANA Inspiration (foregoing her spot at Augusta National Women's Amateur played the same week) and qualified for the 2019 Women's British Open.

In the fall of 2018 Kinhult moved to Tallahassee to play golf at Florida State University. [4] As a freshman, she won two tournaments and set the Seminoles' single-season scoring average record of 70.66, was a WGCA First Team All-American, shared ACC Player of the Year honors with Wake Forest's Jennifer Kupcho, and was named both ACC and WGCA Freshman of the Year. [5] During her year and a half at Florida State, Kinhult was a three-time winner and won the 2019 Arnold Palmer Cup. [6]

In June 2019, she reached number one in the World Amateur Golf Ranking.

Professional career

Kinhult turned professional in December 2019 after qualifying for the Symetra Tour. [7] She won her first professional tournament at the 2020 Symetra Tour Championship, earning LPGA Tour membership for 2021 and a spot in the 2020 U.S. Women's Open in the process. [8] [2]

Kinhult earned her card for the 2022 LPGA Tour through qualifying school. [9]

Personal life

Following Vincent Norrman's first PGA Tour win at the 2023 Barbasol Championship, it was widely reported that Kinhult was his girlfriend and that she had been instrumental in his trajectory to the PGA Tour win. [10]

Amateur wins

Source: [1]

Professional wins

Symetra Tour wins

No.DateTournamentWinning scoreTo parMargin of
victory		Runner-up
16 Nov 2020 Symetra Tour Championship 68-71-69-70=278−104 strokes Flag of the United States.svg Demi Runas

Results in LPGA majors

Results not in chronological order.

Tournament2018201920202021202220232024
Chevron Championship CUTCUT
U.S. Women's Open CUTT24
Women's PGA Championship CUTCUT69
The Evian Championship NTCUTCUTCUT
Women's British Open CUTCUT
  Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut
NT = no tournament
T = tied

Team appearances

Amateur

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References

  1. 1 2 "Frida Kunhult". World Amateur Golf Ranking. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
  2. 1 2 "Kinhult Wins 2020 Symetra Tour Championship and More from the Final Round". Symertra Tour. Archived from the original on 13 November 2020. Retrieved 7 November 2020.
  3. ↑ "European Girls' Team Championship Results". European Golf Association. 19 October 2015. Retrieved 4 August 2018.
  4. ↑ "Seminoles Roster: Frida Kinhult". Florida State University . Retrieved 14 August 2019.
  5. ↑ "U.S. Womens Open: Top 5 Symetra Tour Players Added to Field at Champions G.C." USGA. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
  6. ↑ "Frida Kinhult capping off strong freshman season with FSU at NCAA Finals". Tallahassee Democrat. 16 May 2019. Retrieved 14 August 2019.
  7. ↑ Hansson, Joel (11 December 2019). "Frida Kinhult går all in – har tagit sitt livs största beslut" [Frida Kinhult goes all in – has made the biggest decision of her life]. Bohusläningen (in Swedish).
  8. ↑ "Rookie Frida Kinhult Takes Command at Symetra Tour Championship and More from the Third Round". LPGA. Archived from the original on 6 November 2020. Retrieved 6 November 2020.
  9. ↑ "Na Rin An Secures Medalist Honors At LPGA Q-Series". LPGA. 13 December 2021.
  10. ↑ "From Stockholm to South Georgia: Vincent Norrman carves path to PGA Tour". PGA Tour. Retrieved 27 July 2023.
  11. ↑ "European Girls' Team Championship". European Golf Association. 10 December 2015. Retrieved 14 August 2019.
  12. ↑ "28th Espirito Santo Trophy, Full Leaderboard". International Golf Federation. Retrieved 29 January 2021.
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